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TRICARE’s breast pump policy updates effective July 1

WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- thews, the Defense Health least the first year as foods are be obtained from a TRICARE
TRICARE’s breast pump policy Agency’s subject matter expert introduced. TRICARE’s breast- authorized provider, supplier
was recently updated to in- with the Medical Benefits and feeding support benefit is con- or vendor. For manual or stan-
clude coverage of breast pumps Reimbursement Office, will be sidered to be preventive care. dard electric breast pumps and
and supplies, and breastfeeding online and available to answer Therefore, the equipment, sup- associated supplies (includes
counseling. These supplies and questions directly. plies, and services covered un- breast pump kits), this in-
services will be retroactively cov- der this benefit are exempt from cludes any civilian retail store
ered as of Dec. 19. According to officials, breast- cost shares and copays. or pharmacy. If payment is out
feeding has long been a recom- of pocket for a covered breast
To get full details about this mended healthy choice. The The coverage is for all preg- pump, a completed claim form
important benefit change, as American Academy of Pedi- nant TRICARE beneficiaries, as with a copy of the prescription
well as an opportunity to ask atrics recommends exclusive well as beneficiaries who legally for the breast pump, along with
questions, TRICARE will host breastfeeding for the first six adopt and intend to personally a receipt for reimbursement
a Facebook town hall on June months, for most children, and breastfeed. To be covered, the must be submitted.
22, 1:00 p.m. EDT. Bobbie Mat- continued breastfeeding for at breast pump and supplies must

Total force current, selected master sergeant

evaluations close out Sept. 30

Debbie Gildea important factor when evaluating Airmen. NEWS
Master sergeants and selects, whose EPRs closed out before
Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs
June 3, will get another EPR that closes out Sept. 30 covering per-
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- formance during the months between their most recent EPR and
Regular Air Force, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve master Sept. 30.
sergeant and master sergeant-select enlisted performance reports
will now close out annually on Sept. 30. In addition, as of June 3, Master sergeants and selects whose EPRs would have closed out
master sergeants and selects will no longer receive change-of-re- between June 3 and Sept. 30 will not get an EPR until the Sept. 30
porting-official EPRs. closeout date.

Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion Additional enlisted evaluation and promotion system changes will
System changes initiated in July 2014, including EPR static closeout be announced as they are approved for implementation.
dates for each grade, focus on ensuring job performance is the most
For more information about Air Force personnel programs go
to myPers.

OPM to notify employees of cybersecurity incident

Sam Schumach rity controls. ensure that only legitimate recovery services to poten-
OPM has partnered with business connections have tially affected individuals
U.S. Office of Personnel Management access to the internet; and through CSID®, a company
the U.S. Department of Home- deploying anti-malware soft- that specializes in these ser-
WA S H I N G TO N , land Security’s Computer ware across the environment vices. This comprehensive,
DC -- The U.S. Office of Per- Emergency Readiness Team to protect and prevent the 18-month membership in-
sonnel Management (OPM) (US-CERT) and the Federal deployment or execution of cludes credit monitoring and
has identified a cybersecurity Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tools that could compromise $1 million in identity theft
incident potentially affect- to determine the full impact the network. protection services at no cost
ing personnel data for cur- to Federal personnel. OPM to enrollees.
rent and former federal em- continues to improve secu- As a result of the incident,
ployees, including personally rity for the sensitive informa- OPM will send notifications “Protecting our Federal
identifiable information (PII). tion it manages and evaluates to approximately 4 million in- employee data from mali-
its IT security protocols on a dividuals whose PII may have cious cyber incidents is of
Within the last year, the continuous basis to protect been compromised. Since the the highest priority at OPM,”
OPM has undertaken an ag- sensitive data to the greatest investigation is on-going, ad- said OPM Director Katherine
gressive effort to update its extent possible. Since the in- ditional PII exposures may Archuleta. “We take very se-
cybersecurity posture, add- trusion, OPM has instituted come to light; in that case, riously our responsibility to
ing numerous tools and ca- additional network security OPM will conduct additional secure the information stored
pabilities to its networks. As precautions, including: re- notifications as necessary. In in our systems, and in coordi-
a result, in April 2015, OPM stricting remote access for order to mitigate the risk of nation with our agency part-
detected a cyber-intrusion af- network administrators and fraud and identity theft, OPM ners, our experienced team is
fecting its information tech- restricting network adminis- is offering credit report ac- constantly identifying oppor-
nology (IT) systems and data. tration functions remotely; a cess, credit monitoring and tunities to further protect the
The intrusion predated the review of all connections to identify theft insurance and
adoption of the tougher secu- See OPM, Page 11